[wp-hackers] Adding class to first menu item of submenu inwp_nav_menu

[Otto]

Define "flakey". See, I see a lot of this sort of response, but nobody
ever explains what they mean.

In my experience, :first-child and other CSS selectors work fine.

What's "flakey" is poorly conceived and implemented PHP hacks designed
to needlessly alter HTML in order to accomplish the same thing that
the selector can do just fine.

-Otto



On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 5:18 AM, Gavin Pearce <Gavin.Pearce at 3seven9.com> wrote:
> Hi Otto, Mike,
>
> From experience, ul.sub-menu li:first-child, can be a little flakey at times, even if it's meant to be supported.
>
> Notwithstanding IE6 ... ;)
>
> G
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com [mailto:wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Otto
> Sent: 28 June 2010 06:18
> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Adding class to first menu item of submenu inwp_nav_menu
>
> Nope, it is. See their test page. They use a "test link" which adds
> stuff to the DOM via Javascript.
>
> -Otto
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 8:46 PM, Mike Schinkel
> <mikeschinkel at newclarity.net> wrote:
>>> Actually, according to your link, it does work in IE7 and up. The
>>> caveats it mentions occur when you change the DOM via javascript.
>>
>>
>> Point taken. But for IE8:
>>
>> "IE8 does the right thing only after you remove the focus from the test link."
>>
>> Unless I misread, that's not related to DOM manipulation?  FWIW.
>>
>> -Mike
>>
>> On Jun 27, 2010, at 9:06 PM, Otto wrote:
>>
>>> Actually, according to your link, it does work in IE7 and up. The
>>> caveats it mentions occur when you change the DOM via javascript.
>>>
>>> -Otto
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Mike Schinkel
>>> <mikeschinkel at newclarity.net> wrote:
>>>>> Why would you need that? Just use "ul.sub-menu li:first-child". CSS2
>>>>> has you covered on that score.
>>>>
>>>> FYI, li:first-child doesn't work 100%[1] in IE8 nor at all in IE7, unfortunately.
>>>>
>>>> -Mike
>>>> [1] http://www.quirksmode.org/css/contents.html
>>>>
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